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Benjamin West
1738-1820
Christ
Black and white chalk, on gray paper
15 x 9 9/16 inches (380 x 243 mm)
Purchased as a gift of Mrs. Robert H. Charles.
1970.11:16
Notes:
Study for the figure in "The Baptism", the painting originally executed for the King's Chapel at Windsor, now at the War Memorial Chapel, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist; by descent; Harry Margary, the great-grandson of Maria West (daughter of Raphael Lamar West, and granddaughter of Benjamin West); Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London; from whom purchased 60 drawings, 17 June 1964, and 197 drawings, 15 February 1965, by M. Knoedler and Co., Inc.; from whom purchased 257 drawings by the Morgan Library in 1970.
Associated names:
Margary, Harry, former owner.
Charles, Robert H., Mrs., donor.
Bibliography:
Kraemer, Ruth S. Drawings by Benjamin West and His Son, Raphael Lamar West. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 54, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Sixteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969-1971. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, p. 107, pl. 23.
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